Now, compared to your typically ethically challenged journalist/public intellectual, I have a rather favourable opinion of Sadanand Dhume, which is why I am sort of nonplussed with where exactly he is going when on eve of 26/11 he reminds us that many in Pakistan (presumably liberals) were appalled by the attacks.

Excuse me for breaking the rules of decorum, but why am I supposed to give a flying f**k about how appalled the bed-wetting class in LOP is about all this “unpleasant situation”.

For the simple fact is you can take all the dread, consternation, horror, revulsion, indignation and whatever else Pakistani liberals feel about 26/11 and still fall ten rupees short of ten rupees vada pav.

To paraphrase Jennifer Lopez, for liberals, whether of LOP or of India, feelings don’t cost a thing. For them all the hand wringing and tch-tching is about signalling kindness in their heart and virtue in their soul to the world in general and their peer in particular.

Pakistani liberals don’t care about 26/11 or about terrorism against India.

You don’t believe me, do you! Then please tell me, where are morchas by Pakistani liberals demanding an end to state sponsorship of terrorism against India, or demanding punishment against masterminds of the terror attacks. Forget morchas, where are the articles in their liberal respectable publications, newspapers or magazines, offline or online denouncing terrorism against India, unequivocally asking for an end in involvement by Pakistani state.

I will tell you, you wont find any such examples, because there aren’t any! And that is not because Pakistani liberals are scared. Not so ! To accuse them of cowardice is to do disservice to them. Pakistani liberals have been vocal critics of Mullahs and Military (ofcourse it helps that they possess no threat to either of them).

The only reasons that I can surmise behind their reluctance is either they don’t care, or they consider terrorism a justified response to Indian “occupation” of Kashmir, or an appeasement of Jihadi monster.

Either way, by their silent acquiescence, they have encouraged religious war against Kaffirs by a psychopathic Pakistani state.

If you want to remember 26/11 please remember for what it was just one instance in ongoing jihad against Hindus by a Pakistan which still resents the fact that for all their professions of Islamic piety and purity they are in essence rape child of Islamicized central asian hordes, and that even after thousand years of persecution Hindus refuse to submit to the true faith.

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Dhume is somewhat sympathetic to Hindu nationalist causes. But due to existing geo-political conditions he needs to be careful about not being too obvious about that. In other words, he needs to look out for ensuring that his career isn’t threatened. Hence the note on Pakistani tears for India. That said, if some day in future he makes a complete U-turn and becomes another damn-the-Hindus I-am-South-Asian-not-Indian-(American) like many of his peers, it wouldn’t be surprising at all.

cricfan

Not a “center-right” position, but well said and it needed to be said. Perhaps the author could have directly focused on the valid and key points raised here rather than a sub-plot that focuses on one person’s (Dhume) opinion or compulsions; but yes, the title is catchy His instantaneous tweeted response when queried on his comment seems to moderately agree with what is said here. It also lends credence to what another commentator (tattvAnveShaka) pointed out.

Anonymous

Right on Gaurav. Dhume tends to be preachy of the virtues of his Pakistani liberal friends and you can consistently see it on his twitter responses. I don’t have an issue with that. However some of his articles in the WSJ get my goat Especially ones where he advocates aid for Pakistan, MFN status for Pakistan, a workaround for Pakistan to reach brotherhood with India and above all constant praise for the Pakistani Liberals. I have met many of them and none of them ever condemned terrorism without finding excuses – Palestine, Kashmir, Education etc. Liberal Pakistanis are no different than the imagined moderates of Islam. Fat chance they have in changing the DNA of Pakistan.